Performance issues since July balance patch

Comments: 25

• 04 Aug, '21
  Killiango

  I have encountered performance issues only on larger maps (> 4 players)

• 09 Aug, '21
  Arthon

  Confirm this, larger maps and longer games with more than 3-4 clans present. (haven't tested it after 9th Aug patch, will do so when possible for me and will update this).

• 09 Aug, '21
  Pera

  confirm this too , tried both mp , sp it happens

• 09 Aug, '21
  liskel

  Also this seems to get worse if I play multiple matches in a row (without restarting the complete game). Eg. fame “popup” (Thane) begins to noticeable stop the game and takes quite a lot of time to display.
  Had no problems approx. a month ago.

• 14 Aug, '21
  Louie Andrew Capulso

  late game gives me 30FPS in either lowest graphic settings or max graphics quality. CPU and GPU utilization is no more than 15%.
  
  GTX 1070 + Ryzen 5 3600 + 16GB 3200Mhz

• 17 Aug, '21
  TinTail

  I have no such big perfomance issues, but annoyng game lag (stuck 1-2 seconds) when some events occured (torfin ram, building explode, squirel forest grow). Like game loafding some resourses or recalculate an synchronize something.

• 17 Aug, '21
  Mellissass

  me too lag

• 02 Sep, '21
  Fr_disruption(Shiro) Admin

  "Freeze" (suggested by Oni on 2021-08-30), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 21 Sep, '21
  7fantasy7

  Game on Mac OS runs around 2!!!-10 fps constantly, which on windows PCs with lower specifications it runs smoothly

• 27 Sep, '21
  Fr_disruption(Shiro) Admin

  "Game freezes randomly, have to end task via task manager" (suggested by Marcus on 2021-09-23), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 29 Sep, '21
  DenchikH20

  After the last maintenance, constant braking started and it is not possible to play. Everything was in order before the preventive work!

• 17 Oct, '21
  Myths

  My wife and I have started playing the game again recently and large maps freeze and lag constantly... making the game almost unplayable.

• 13 Nov, '21
  Ozswish Merged

  Gameplay starts to have performance issues, including during single player, when progressed through larger maps or with more players / AI. The controls are lagged or non-responsive from keyboard, the music slows & stutters, including during game pause menu. with all game performance settings changed to low, running Windows 10, Alienware, Intel i7-700HQ 4-core 2.8Ghz x64, 4GB RAM, NVidia GeForce 1050Ti. Have also tried running in DirectX & OpenGL from Steam start menus, similar issues on 2x different but identical spec machines.

• 15 Nov, '21
  Fr_disruption(Shiro) Admin

  "Performance issues in gameplay or larger maps/players" (suggested by Ozswish on 2021-11-13), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 26 Jan, '22
  XxCrashNBurnxX

  I get stuttering on larger maps every once in a while, seems to happen when I play for long periods of time.
  
  64GB RAM, 2x Nvidia RTX 3090 FE, Ryzen Threadripper. I run in DirectX

• 03 Feb, '22
  Grumpkln

  Hello. :)
  Okay, lets go:
  my Setup:
  AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Prozessor
  16 GB Ram
  AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
  
  Even so my Specs are much higher, than the requirements on the Steampage, I experience some FPS Issues, especially in longer games, in singleplayer as well as in multiplayer.
  At the start of the match, i have barely 60 fps. I would be totally okay with that, but it drops after some time ingame to 30 fps or even lower.
  My drivers are up to date.
  
  And looking at my task manager, nothing there is over 30%, so, this must be an issue with the game, right? If so, are there any fixes? I already fiddlet with all the settings in the games menu, and i can't say it changed anything.
  
  It's a really fun game, so it would be really sad, if there's nothing, i could do. :/

• 26 Jun, '22
  Mango

  My setup:
  - i5-11400F
  - 16 GB Ram
  - NVIDIA 1650 SUPER
  
  Problem:
  Game freezes for one second every time something changes, for example:
  
  - Place a new building on the map.
  - Complete a building.
  - Discover new territory.
  - Assign people to a building.
  
  The size of the map doesn't prevent the freeze, it just makes it faster.
  
  Tried without unsuccessfully:
  - Tried launching the game with the 3 graphics options (open-gl etc).
  - Decrease graphics to minimum settings.

• 07 Jul, '22
  Aurkus

  Having the same issue. Performance is fine early on but tanks further on into a game. Even after the game has ended on the statistics screen during the replay fps is horrible. Runs at 15-25 fps with 1 person and 6 AIs while not hosting the game. Sound will stutter when performance drops down to 1 fps for about a second before jumping back up to 15-25 fps.
  
  Graphical settings seem to have almost 0 impact on performance when it tanks. Tried pretty much every combination of the ones available in game.
  Also tried DirectX, DirectX 32bit, OpenGL and used DXVK to see if performance with Vulkan was any better. Tried the "Disable Fullscreen optimization" option on the Northgard.exe
  
  Ryzen 5 2600x
  RX 6700XT
  16gb ram
  
  GPU runs around ~40-60% when the problem happens while CPU runs ~20-25%

• 10 Aug, '22
  Никита

  1-all mode
  2-windows10 x64
  3-Opengl, Directx11,Directx11 32bit
  4-during the game, at a random moment, the game does not respond and crashes

• 11 Aug, '22
  Nikita

  Previously, the game worked fine, did not play for 3 months and now it crashes, just does not respond, reinstalled on different disks, changed drivers, settings, run as an administrator, nothing helps

• 14 May
  roman

  The game soes not runing.
  1 solo
  2 win 11
  3 tryed both
  4 after running (from steam or from shortcut on desktop) thinking in few seconds and game shutdown. But severals days ago all was perfect.

• 02 Aug
  Gerhard

  I only play Stag clan in Conquest alone.
  Since to July balance patch my game freezes the moment i want to build a forge in every game.
  It works if i play without forge, but this is absolutely no fun.
  I wait till this get fixed.

• 27 Aug
  Szymon Tarkowski

  Game works fine for a certain amount of time then all of a sudden it becomes unplayable, Mega freez slow down. Far worse on open gl, than on DirectX. Running 5600x with 16 gigs of ram, and a rx5808 gig. Up until now (with few patch issues, resolved allready) game was perfoming great.

• 28 Aug
  Eric Beijner

  Since the last patch I've only been playing conquest with Snake, and on 'Dystopia' after 49mins played I had to save and exit the game. When starting the game back up a few minutes later and loading the same map it's freezing every time. using all of the available RAM memory (total 32GB).
  
  I've tried changing the game settings, starting the game with either DirectX or OpenGL, and reinstalling the game. I even tried starting a conquest on Boar (which I can play without this issue), and nothing helps.

• 31 Aug
  Eric

  Similar performance issues as others have noted. I have been playing the game in story mode and rarely if ever had any performance issues. Since mid Aug '23 I've had the game stutter. It is especially bad when snow and fog effects are in play. Much longer pauses ~ 1-2s occur when the year updates and the gave generates an auto save. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game hoping it had something to do with the autosaves.
  1 - mode: Story
  2 - OS : Windows 10
  3 - OpenGL / DirectX - No idea
  4 - Reproducible. Yes. I've been playing chapter 11 ( big map, lots of factions ) . Happens every time one the game gets a few turns in.
  Hope you all can figure this out. Fun game. Hate to see it removed due to poor performance.